Once done, Photorec will show how many files it has recovered. Select the path where the recovered files will be stored. In Ubuntu and other Ubuntu based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS etc, you can use the command below to install TestDisk: sudo apt install testdisk Arch Linux users can install it from AUR. Select a directory for the recovered files Most Linux distributions already have this tool in their official repository.Select Free if you didn’t write to that partition after removing the particular file, otherwise select Whole Otherwise, if you are recovering files from a partition formatted as FAT or NTFS select Other If you are using Linux, it's going to be ext2/ext3/ext4, so the default selection is ext2/ext3. Move the selector up or down to the partition from which you have removed the file(s). Under normal circumstances, you don’t need to modify them. Photorec also has a list of different options. Here you can disable all file types by pressing s key. If your hard disk has Linux partitions, then select Open a terminal and launch photorec (as root): sudo photorec Install Test disk: sudo apt-get install testdisk Here are the steps to recover files based on filetype using PhotoRec: PhotoRec tries to recover the filename in this case, but most of the time PhotoRec can't recover the filenames. In some cases, the filename is stored in the file itself. PhotoRec can selectively recover files based on their filetype(s), but PhotoRec / TestDisk can't selectively scan an individual directory for lost files unless you had mounted a whole hard drive partition as this directory. So use TestDisk first, and if you recovered all of the deleted files with TestDisk, then great, else you can recover the rest of the files using PhotoRec. So, if you accidentally reformat a partition, TestDisk can recover thousands of files without missing a single file, but if you deleted a file by sending it to the Recycle Bin (Trash), and then emptying the Trash, TestDisk might not be able to recover it for you in all the cases. However, the only problem with TestDisk is that it doesn't always recover all the deleted files. TestDisk is a much better tool than PhotoRec.
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